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Innovation

Innovation is a category that includes all new products, typically branded and often unusual such as dissolving tea discs and tea concentrate in aerosol cans. Conventional teas are categorized under tea and functional and condition-specific teas are found under Health & Wellness. At origin, this is the catch-all for new machinery to process tea, tea harvesters and other mechanical advances.

Argentina’s Catalyst for Tea Innovation

by Horacio Bustos on April 22, 2022 3 comments

Argentina’s National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) is a cutting-edge organization in the Agro-technological sector in agricultural research, extension, and innovation. The institute is a decentralized state organization with operational and financial autarchy, associated with the Ministry of Agroindustry. INTA operates in the five ecoregions of Argentina (Northwest, Northeast, Cuyo, Pampeana, and Patagonia) through a structure that includes: a central headquarters, 15 regional centers, 52 experimental stations, six research centers, 22 research institutes, and more than 350 Extension Units.

Innovation in Tea: Watch These Spaces

by Peter Keen on February 10, 2018 2 comments

The Innovation Imperative: Where and How, not If In a time of change, the question is not whether to innovate, but how. For tea, it’s also urgent. There are challenges to business as usual everywhere: sustainable development, shifting consumer tastes and demographics, coffee competition, yields, costs, and quality, to name […]

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Innovation in Tea Flavor Design: Anything Goes – With Anything

by Peter Keen on January 10, 2018 2 comments

How would you describe the flavor of these ten teas? They are a representative selection from the many market innovations that are having at least initial success. They consistently get positive customer reviews, and favorable informative and non-hype press and industry coverage. Some of these surely will not maintain a […]

A New Era of Tea Tech and Sci: Smart Eyes, Molecular Detectives, Soft $3

by Peter Keen on December 30, 2017 0 comments

Tea tech: robotics, computer vision, machine learning; Tea Sci: biogenetics, biomarkers; Soft $3: end-to-end logistics, sustainability, cost, productivity If you search online for “tea innovation news” most of the results will be about the surge of new products. These are creative and original. They are targeted to millennials, premiumization, […]

Teas That Show You Care

by Diana Jendoubi on April 14, 2024 4 comments

Many companies in tea-producing regions around the world endeavor to improve the lives of women, their families, and communities. Celebrate Mother’s Day buy choosing gifts from conscious tea companies that care about making a difference.

A woman plucking leaves in Northern Vietnam.

Mother’s Day Teas That Empower Women

by Diana Jendoubi on April 15, 2024 1 comment

The tea industry runs on the backs of women. Their strong yet nimble fingers pluck the delicate buds from the trees, and sort the imperfect from the perfect leaves. Yet in many tea-producing countries, women are far more likely to live in extreme poverty and have less access to education. However, some people are striving to change that narrative by educating, empowering, and enabling women in tea to rise up and bring others with them. This Mother’s Day Tea Journey wants to celebrate the companies and individuals who are helping make a difference for mothers and female tea workers around the world.